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Clause 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, and those in which
a state shall be party, the Supreme Court, shall have
original jurisdiction. In all the other cases
before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions,
and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

Clause 3. The trial of all crimes, except in
cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial
shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall
have been committed; but when not committed within
any state, the trial shall be at such place or places
as the Congress may by law have directed.

SECTION III. Treason.

Clause 1. Treason against the United States shall
consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering
to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on
the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act,
or on confession in open court.

Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to declare
the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attainted.

ARTICLE IV.

SECTION I. State Records.

Full faith and credit shall be given in each state
to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings
of every other state. And the Congress may,
by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and
the effect thereof.

SECTION II. Privileges of Citizens, etc.

Clause 1. The citizens of each state shall be
entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens
in the several states.

Clause 2. A person charged in any state with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from
justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand
of the executive authority of the state from which
he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state
having jurisdiction of the crime.

Clause 3. No person held to service or labor
in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation
therein, be discharged from such service or labor,
but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to
whom such service or labor may be due.

SECTION III. New States and Territories.

Clause 1. New states may be admitted by the Congress
into this Union, but no new state shall be formed
or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state:
nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more
states, or parts of states, without the consent of
the Legislatures of the states concerned, as well
as of the Congress.

Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose
of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting
the territory or other properly belonging to the United
States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be
so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United
States or of any particular state.